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"Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows."
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"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."
"If you were brought up on a poor man's brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine."
"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."
"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."
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"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
"Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious."
"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
"Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning."
"Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination."
"Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
"The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it."
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